

REFLECTIONS OF A CONTROL UNIT SURVIVOR
by Foo Chee Seng
I have been tortured in their isolation cell. I was not allowed
to meet nor to talk with any other inmate. They made me mentally break down.
I was emaciated, somewhat equal to the captives in the Nazi camp. It was
not that they did not give me enough food (if you call it "food");
they harassed me to become neurotic and manic-depressive so that I could
neither eat nor sleep. I felt myself like the living dead. Not until I could
not stand any more and tried to commit suicide did they move me out of isolation
confinement.
I went through that terrible time with a daily routine like a robot: get
up in the morning and eat, go to the toilet, then lay myself down in the
bunk until the next hour for food and toilet and on and on. The day was
cold, the night was cold. I had no one to chat with, no visiting, no coffee,
nothing, but just forced to face the cold wall, day and night. That drove
me really mad. I managed to survive it somehow, but I swear, someday they
will have to harvest the hatred they have planted inside me. I swear, I
have been unrighteously and wickedly condemned for what I have not committed.
They have oppressed me because I am their so-called outsider. They have
broken my family apart and ruined my life.